Chapter 93 – Episode 13. I Went on a Business Trip With a Female Boss I Disliked, and the Hotel I Booked Only Had One Room.
“Excuse me.”
Chisami Suzuki got into my car saying her hello. Since it was a business trip for 3 days and 2 nights, I didn’t have that much luggage.
“Is the travel time okay?”
“The plane departs at 10 o’clock, so you can relax, assistant team leader.”
Near Tokyo, there are Tokyo International Airport, also known as Haneda Airport, and Narita International Airport. Haneda Airport has more domestic flights, so it was easier to catch a flight, but since Narita International Airport is located in the same Chiba Prefecture as the Human Resources Development Institute, it is close, so I booked a ticket at Narita International Airport. Did.
“Have you prepared all the necessary documents?”
“Yes, I put it in my bag in the morning.”
Conversations in the car were mostly business-related. It wasn’t even a conversation, and the two of them spoke less than ten sentences, so there was silence for the 30 minutes on the way to the airport.
We got out of the car, picked up our luggage and went to the airport. The place we were going to was Akita Prefecture. As a prefecture in Tohoku’s Kita-Tohoku region, it was a famous granary in Japan. Perhaps for that reason, it was the area where the headquarters of Tyra Foods was located.
For reference, Tohoku’s Minami Tohoku (南東北) was home to Fukushima, famous for the nuclear accident. Here was the headquarters of Minamoto Foods.
As it was a granary region, rice production was high, and naturally, alcohol made from rice was also famous. I guess I should buy some alcohol as a gift this time.
Also, I heard that Akita is a place with many beautiful women, so much so that there is even a saying that they are called Akita beauties, so I should look into it with anticipation. But actually, I wasn’t expecting much. This is because, as it is a rural area with many granaries, the population is aging. How many young women can there be? Even if there were young women, they would have gone to cities like Tokyo or Chiba to get jobs.
I don’t know if it was Chisami Suzuki’s intention or just that, but the airplane seats were far apart from each other. Well, I’m fine too. Because I can go comfortably without worrying about Chisami Suzuki.
Roughly, the flight time takes about an hour, so including the time to get to the Human Resources Development Center Kitahoku Support, the total travel time one way was about two hours.
Fortunately, it is better to go by plane. From what I found out, I was told that it would take a whopping 7 hours to drive from the Human Resources Development Center to the Kitahoku branch. If I hadn’t gone by plane, I would have had to drive for seven hours and be in hellish silence with Chisami Suzuki.
During the flight, I read the materials I had brought with me. Today I had to look at the Kitahoku branch, and the next day I had to look around at Taira Foods, where training is usually done there. The final plan was to finish at the Kitahoku branch in the morning and take a flight back in the afternoon. Chisami Suzuki would do all the work, and all I had to do was watch, learn, and assist, so there wasn’t anything particularly difficult.
I got off at Akita Airport, took a rental car that I had applied for in advance online, and went to the Taira Human Resources Development Institute Kitahoku Branch, located in the north of Akita City, Akita Prefecture.
The Kitahoku branch was much smaller than the main branch of the Human Resources Development Institute, which had an auditorium the size of a basketball court in a slightly larger building. Well, since only Taira Foods and its subcontractors from the Tohoku region come to receive training, there was no need for it to be that large.
“Oh my! “You worked hard to get here!”
“No. “Thanks to you, I came here comfortably.”
The person who welcomed us was Kinichiro Matsuhira, the support leader of Kitahoku Support, a bald man in his mid-50s with a short beard and a big nose. Kinichiro Matsuhira must have been good at being tough, so he bowed down to Chisami Suzuki, who was only half his age.
Still, the position of support leader is much higher than that of Chisami Suzuki, who is at the level of deputy team leader. Something smelled bad. Probably asking for more support or something like that.
“My name is Chisami Suzuki, Vice Team Leader of Educational Support Team 2, and this is employee Ryuta Taira.”
“…Tyra?”
Chisami Suzuki and Kinichiro Matsuhira exchanged business cards with each other, and I handed my business card to Kinichiro Matsuhira and then received a business card from Kinichiro Matsuhira.
At the beginning of her employment, she was also trained in business card etiquette by her assistant, Chieri Mimata, and was told that it was polite for her subordinates to hand out their business cards first, followed by their superiors. She also learned that business cards should always be handed and received standing up, and that they should be handed out in a way that is easy for the other person to read.
And while working outside with Shinoe Misano, we often exchanged business cards when meeting people from other companies, giving us practice rather than practice. Now, I am one of the office workers who can exchange business cards proficiently.
“Let’s go eat lunch first!”
Since it was close to 12 o’clock when we arrived, we followed Kinichiro Matsuhira to the restaurant. The restaurant that Kinichiro Matsuhira took him to was a high-end sushi restaurant.
Perhaps because it was a granary, the rice was delicious. The west side of Akita City faces the sea, so the fish wasn’t bad.
“Could it be that Taira Ryuta Temple… “Are you from the original family?”
“Yes, my mother is the director of the Human Resources Development Center.”
“Ah~! “I asked because his last name was Tyra, but he was the director’s son!”
Mitsuhira Kinichiro clapped his hands and liked my answer. Could it be that the arrival of the son of the director of the Human Resources Development Center was interpreted as meaning that more attention would be paid to the branch? I just came here for experience.
“Please tell your mother. The Kitahoku branch needs a little more budget. This time, there were many applicants for Tyra Foods and related companies. So naturally, a lot of people flocked to our Kitahoku branch, and what I did at that time was…”
Kinichiro Mitsuhira was a man of many words. He started talking to me about what he had accomplished while he was here at the branch, and he didn’t stop talking for almost thirty minutes. Ah, this is what it feels like to have bleeding ears…
And I could see that Chisami Suzuki was getting more and more angry as she held onto me and talked to me for thirty minutes without even looking at me. I know Chisami Suzuki’s personality, but I didn’t know Kinichiro Matsuhira, so Chisami Suzuki will pay the price later when he robs her branch.
After such a long lunch break, we began to audit the branch education team and education support team under the guidance of Kinichiro Matsuhira. Chisami Suzuki, like a possessed person, discovered that the branch education team was not following the revised education content we had sent, and the face of Kinichiro Matsuhira next to her also rotted.
Kinichiro Matsuhira, who had finally realized that he had been rude to Chisami Suzuki during lunch, was at a loss, but he could not stop Chisami Suzuki from picking a fight with me, a direct descendant of the chairman. I didn’t have much to do. All I was doing was simple things like checking a pre-made checklist and checking if I was following it well, and putting an X if I wasn’t following it. Of course, there were far more Xs than checks.
When I saw Chisami Suzuki working without hesitation, I continued to have doubts. Chisami Suzuki must have something behind her to be able to step forward so confidently. In the corporate jungle, politics were as important as skills. As with Korean companies, politics was more important for Japanese companies, and their future was determined depending on whose line they were on.
Chisami Suzuki behaves like a no-nonsense person, but the fact that she has reached the position of assistant team leader means that someone is looking after her. Chisami Suzuki believes that too, and she is openly challenging me. Recently, the head of the human resources department, Chitojo Nadada, has been moved out, and a large number of Jiro’s lines have been transferred to other places, so Chisami Suzuki is also a little quiet, but there is no telling when she will go out on her own again.
However, it was somehow fun to see someone else suffer what I suffered. In particular, it was a little funny to see Kinichiro Matsuhira’s expression rot every time Chisami Suzuki pointed out something to her.
By the time Chisami Suzuki had shaken off each of her branch’s education teams and education support teams, it had been nearly five hours and it was approaching 7 o’clock. Matsuhira Kinichiro tapped Chisami Suzuki on the shoulder while showing off her distorted face smiling technique.
“Hehe, you’re really working hard. “Today, I have a meal with the owner of Taira Foods, whom I will see tomorrow, so let’s go quickly.”
Taira Foods’ president, Nagumo Xian (名 雲 詩杏), was one of the presidents of numerous subsidiaries of the Taira Group, and she was famous as one of the few female presidents. She said that she was originally the president of a small retort food company, but she was scouted by Taira Danzo and became the president of Taira Foods. She said that since then, she has raised the market share of Taira Foods, which had been lagging behind Minamoto for a dozen years, to almost the same level.
As Nagumo Cian was the president scouted directly by Taira Danzo, he did not give in to Ichiro, Jiro, or Kokoro, but was only loyal to the chairman, Taira Danzo. Therefore, the three successors did not quarrel with Nagumo Cian, but were as friendly to him as possible. He said he was putting a lot of effort into making it.
Chisami Suzuki couldn’t show her irritation in front of such a great Nagumo Sian, so she nodded her head at Kinichiro Matsuhira’s words.
“We can’t keep her boss waiting. “Isn’t it too late?”
“Don’t worry. The appointment time is 7:30…”
Kinichiro Matsuhira’s expression was not good at her sudden change in attitude, but Chisami Suzuki didn’t seem to care about her.
